Socket-wrench container



' y Y u1617109 Feb. s, 1927. ,D F. GRAHAM ,v

. socxET WRENCH CONTAINER Filed Dec. 5, 1925 INVENTOB 1MM 5MM PaenaaPet. s, 1927'.

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Applicationy filed December 3, 1925. Serial No. 72,232,

VMy invention relates to new and useful improvements in socket wrenchcontainers,v

and has for its primaryobject to provide a simple and strong sheet metalsocket wrench y container which provides a locking element out ofl apart of the tool so that a plurality of different .sizel socket wrenchheads may lbe retained in small space for use in auto-A `produce a toolcontainer from two strips ofv sheet metal so fashioned and assembled asto provide a container bottom, a wrench head separating member, and endwalls, said end walls being apertured to receive the handle of thewrench which constitutesthe cover for the container and cooperates withthe wrench heads to hold them in place.

With these and other ends in view, this invention consists in thedetails of construction and combination of elements hereinafter setforth and then specifically designated byV the claims. n 1 In order thatthose skilled in the art to which this invention appertains, mayunderstand howto make anduse the same, I will describe its constructionin detail, referring y by numerals to the accompanying drawings Fig. 1,is a sideA elevation of the socket wrench container, illustrating myinvention.

Fig. 2, is an isometric view thereof. Fig; 3, is an end view'of thesame. 40

embodied10 represents the container which v is preferablymade of sheetmetal and more particularly two strips of sheetv metal 11 and 12. One ofthe strips, as 11, has its ends bent up so as to provide end walls 13projecting from the bottom wall 14. The ends 18, have lugs 15 which passthrough apertures in the strip 12, and are then bent over to hold thetwo strips 11 and 12 together. y

The strip 12 is fashioned to provide a separating partition 16 and endwalls 17 with which the endY walls 13 are to be considered as the endwalls of the container, as they may be .Offset as shown, or they forminga partof this application, in which: v

In carrying out my invention as herein might be substantially in endwisealignmentl as will be Obvious. The partition '1G is provided with .aplurality of holes 18, pref? erablyV of diiferent sizes, of such shapesand dimensions as to receive and hold the wrench socket hea-ds 19. Oneof the ends 17, is provided withv an aperture 20, preferably of the sameshape as the cross sectional shape. of the` wrench handle 21, while theAother end wall has a slot 22, extending 'inward fromvone edge 20, toprovide a mouth23, and said slot is so formed that the mouthv 1 isnarrower than the inner-"end thereof,

making it necessar7 to apply' considerable pressure to'force the toolvhandle thru the mouth, and this will afterward preventthe accidentaldisplacement of the tool handle.

In order `to lock the vwrench socket heads Y Lama 19,`in position, oneend ofv thevhandle`21,f.

which is generally hexagonal shaped inthev cross section, is inserted inthe aperture 20, and the other end then vforced into the slot22, atwhich time the intermediatel porl tion of the handle will be above the`outer endsof the socketV wrench heads, and will thereby securely holdsaid heads in the container, v

The socket wrench heads are provided with the usual hexagonal kor othershapedV holes 24, for registration: with nuts' with ywhich the wrench isused aswell as the necessary holes for of the handle 21. Y v

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact details ofconstruction as herein shown as these may;be varied within the limits ofthe appended claims without ldeparting'from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and usefulis:

1. A container for compound tools comprising twostrips of sheet metal,each having its ends bent up, the ends of one metal strip having lugscoacting with the 'other' strip to hold said strips together, said otherstrip having holes for the reception of certain of the wrench elementsand pro,- vided with apertures inits bent-upends to receive anotherwrench element which coacts with theV first mentioned wrench elements tohold them in the container.

2. In a container for compound tools, a strip of metal provided withholes to act so as to receive certain elements of a compound tool, andhaving its ends bent upward and the reception of the ends .so i

apertured to receive the ends of another eiement of said tool inco-operative relation to the ends of the first ,mentioned tool eiements, and another stripl of metal having its ends 4bent upward andprovided with ylugs passing thru apertures lin the'rst nnen- ?tionedstrip to fasten 'the two strips together, said last mentioned stripunderlying the opposite ends of the first mentioned tool elements forsupporting them.y j Y 10 In ytestimony. f whereof, I have Yhereunto Yafiixed'my signature.

DAVID 1i, GRAHAM.

